"No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot."
Read quote
5 likes
Smart quotes
Smart
2.7K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Smart
Browse quotes that often appear alongside smart — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Smart quotes (page 18 of 136)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"It's all about training smart."
Read quote
5 likes
"Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person."
Read quote
5 likes
"Cynicism makes you feel smart, I know it, even when you aren't smart."
Read quote
5 likes
"Smart beauty is about looking your best and feeling your best and never overpaying for it."
Read quote
5 likes
"If I could play any role in any musical, it would be Desiree in A Little Night Music - Oh my, it is perfection. The character gets to be funny, beautiful, sexy and smart all at the same time and have two men fighting over her. The show is Stephen Sondheim at his absolute best... need I say more?"
Read quote
5 likes
"This notion that I was somehow special and deserving of a more involved education was wrong.I was smart at taking tests, but I knew how smart some of my friends were; they were just smart in different ways."
Read quote
5 likes
"People know I'm smart. And people know that, whether it's SNL or Jimmy Kimmel, it's a trend to take the piss out of celebrity -- just as much of a trend as wearing a gray hoodie or driving a Prius."
Read quote
5 likes
"Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem."
Read quote
5 likes
"Age certainly hadn't conferred any smarts on me. Character maybe, but mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russian writers have a way with aphorisms. They probably spend all winter thinking them up."
Read quote
5 likes
"There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic."
Read quote
5 likes
"If clients don’t trust you they will eventually stop doing business with you. It doesn’t matter how smart you are."
Read quote
5 likes
"Sometimes along the way in my life I don't want a smart woman right now, I want a dumb woman. But then you think, that doesn't work, now I want a smart woman. Then you get a smart woman and you go no, that doesn't work so it's just killing me right now."
Read quote
5 likes
"A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow."
Read quote
5 likes
"Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations."
Read quote
5 likes
"Is it a shame that I can’t accept love? Am I too burned out to move towards what will keep me alive or too smart to get pulled into someone else’s world?"
Read quote
5 likes
"Don’t you listen to them, Rexy,” I cooed, and the cat sniffed my nose. “Rachel is a smart girl. She’s not going to go out with a ghost no matter how sexy he is. She knows better. Jenkskie wenskie can just get bent.” I beamed at Jenks, and he made an ugly face. “Rache, put my cat down before you mess with her kitty brain."
Read quote
5 likes
"R.G. Belsky's thought-provoking thriller, The Kennedy Connection, introduces us to a smart, witty, and human hero whose quest to find answers about two crimes - one famous, one all but unnoticed - is loaded with tension and full of unexpected twists and turns. I loved The Kennedy Connection, and can't wait for the next Gil Malloy novel."
Read quote
5 likes
"I find many women are intimidated by "career women"! Bottom line: snap judgments about what you think others' perceptions might be about you, personally or professionally, can be more dangerous or damaging to you than those who are uncomfortable with your stature or your smarts. If you are smart and focused on your career, remind yourself that no one can ever take away your drive and your passion."
Read quote
5 likes
"I just don't like that you can either be ugly and smart or pretty and dumb, or ugly and nice or pretty and mean."
Read quote
5 likes